Storing time from a quantum stopwatch with qubits – instead of losing accuracy by stopping and starting it – could give us the ultimate precision in timekeeping
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May 23, 2018May 23, 2018Science
Gene-Editing Technology Is About To Affect Your Shopping Cart
Thanks to selective gene editing, scientists figured out how to grow a strain of rice with a significantly-enhanced yield without sacrificing the plant’s ability to survive. In two separate tests, the researchers found that the genetically-altered crops produced 25 percent and 31 percent more grain than a naturally-bred...
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May 23, 2018May 23, 2018Science
Brain Scans Of Stressed Pilots Uncover A Big Problem With How We Do Science
Stick ‘em in an MRI, have them do something, and then see what happens in their brain. It’s how a lot of neuroscience research is done, and for the most part it’s served us pretty well. But new research suggests these experiments, all set in a laboratory due to the size of MRI machines, are […]
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May 23, 2018May 23, 2018Science
Archaeologists Find ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ Carrying Stash Worth Up to $17 Billion
After 310 years at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, the Spanish San José shipwreck has finally been identified.
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May 23, 2018May 23, 2018Science
New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes
If there’s one thing that scientists absolutely should be working on, it’s a self-regenerating robo-Deadpool or the eerily-fluid T-1000 Terminator. Thankfully, a team of scientists just took an important first step towards building a robot that can keep on truckin’ even with a couple of bullet holes improve its...
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May 22, 2018May 23, 2018Science
What Is Consciousness?
Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers
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May 22, 2018May 23, 2018Science
Mice regrow brain tissue after stroke with bioengineered gel
In a first-of-its-kind finding, a new stroke-healing gel helped regrow neurons and blood vessels in mice with stroke-damaged brains, researchers report.
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May 22, 2018May 23, 2018Science
Quantum Dots Synthesized From Tea Leaves Could Be The Future Of Nanomedicine
We now have a clean, cheap way of manufacturing quantum dots, an advanced, microscopic tool that scientists are learning how to use to enhance everything from solar panels to cancer treatments. All they needed was green tea leaf extract, along with a couple other chemicals. But let’s back up, because that’s a lot to...
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May 22, 2018May 23, 2018Science
Gamers Built a “Digital Museum” That Unlocked New Secrets of the Brain
A cure for Alzheimer’s. Mind-controlled tech. Human “immortality.” So many of our hopes for the future hinge upon the same thing: an accurate map of the human brain. To push the effort forward, a team of researchers harnessed the power of gaming and published the results of that effort in the journal Cell. The...
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May 22, 2018May 23, 2018Science
Matter: Every Cell in Your Body Has the Same DNA. Except It Doesn’t.
The genome obviously varies from person to person. But it can also vary from cell to cell, even within the same individual. The implications of “mosaicism” are enormous.